Liberación del campo de Dachau, imágenes tomadas por el corresponsal Lee Miller

http://vcu.sagepub.com/content/9/3/389.full.pdf+html FUENTE journal of visual culture [http://vcu.sagepub.com] SAGE Publications (Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC) Copyright © The Author(s), 2010. Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalspermissions.nav Vol 9(3): 389–408 DOI 10.1177/1470412910380358 Abstract This essay examines images of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp taken by American war correspondent and photographer Lee Miller. Miller’s work is mobilized as an optic through which to grasp the shock of confronting the Nazi camps. Her images are read as a form of visual testimony. That is, although they fail to provide a transparent view of what occurred in the Nazi lagers, they are nevertheless inscribed with all that the photographer did not know of the events to which she bore witness. The nature of this strange unintelligibility is what the author pursues: the visual inscription of the unspeakable as a disquieting resource for thinking through the paradoxes of witnessing and the transmission of human experience. Keywords Dachau • Holocaust • Lee Miller • photography • visual testimony • Autor del artículo Sharon Sliwinski is Assistant Professor of Visual Culture in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Her most recent articles include ‘On Photographic Violence’ published in Photography and Culture and ‘The Aesthetics of Human Rights’, in Culture, Theory & Critique. She is currently finishing a book called Human Rights in Camera, which traces the visual dimensions of human rights discourse. Address: Faculty of Information & Media Studies, North Campus Bldg., Room 240, The University of Western Ontario, London, ONT, N6A 5B7, Canada. [email: ssliwins@uwo.ca] Downloaded http://vcu.sagepub.com/content/9/3/389